During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh always advised and required cadres and party members to uphold a high sense of responsibility for assigned tasks and work, whether big or small, simple or complex, normal or important or secret.
However, in reality, the current situation of avoiding, pushing, working half-heartedly, and being afraid of responsibility is a "disease" that exists among a part of the cadres, party members, civil servants, and public employees. Clearly identifying and dealing with and repelling this disease, the Binh Thuan Provincial Party Committee has been implementing many drastic solutions.
Symptoms and causes
According to the assessment of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, in the past time, cadres, party members, civil servants and public employees in the province have made great efforts in performing their assigned duties and tasks. However, in reality, there are still some cadres, party members and civil servants in some agencies, units and localities in the province who have shown signs of avoidance, shirking, working half-heartedly, fearing responsibility and not daring to do. This situation has impacted and affected the socio-economic development of the province, especially after the authorities prosecuted and tried a number of former and current cadres of the province related to investment projects in the province. From the above situation, the Binh Thuan Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee has identified some signs of avoidance, shirking, working half-heartedly, fearing responsibility and not daring to do among a number of cadres and party members. For management leaders, it is obvious that they are not proactive in advising, proposing and organizing the implementation of tasks within their assigned authority and responsibility; do not express their own opinions in advising, directing and handling work. Do not fully perform assigned duties, tasks and powers; advise, propose, direct and handle work according to their own subjective opinions to ensure their own safety, and do not care about the congestion and stagnation of common work. Do not closely follow the work, do not have a firm grasp of the situation in their agency, locality or unit; do not report or report late, report dishonestly, incompletely, or incorrectly on the actual results of performing tasks within the responsibility of their agency, locality or unit. Do not prioritize solving urgent problems; big, difficult, complicated, sensitive, unprecedented problems; outstanding, pressing tasks related to the area or field of work. Trying to push work to a higher authority or transferring it to another agency, unit or individual while the work is within their authority and responsibility. For cadres, party members and civil servants who do not hold a position, they are not thorough, proactive, and do not fulfill their responsibilities in their work; advising and solving work is not specific or clear, just to get the job done, prolonging the time to solve the work, "soaking" the work, "doing easy things, ignoring difficult things". Lacking the will to strive, lacking motivation to work, not being progressive, content with their lot, afraid of doing difficult things, afraid of making mistakes or choosing "safe" positions and fields of work, with little risk and little pressure. Being passive, indecisive, waiting and only following the instructions of superiors or relying on the collective to decide on issues within the authority and responsibility of the individual.
One of the reasons leading to the above situation is that currently, the Central Government has no specific regulations on behavior and sanctions for avoiding, pushing, working half-heartedly, and being afraid of responsibility, so there are no measures to strictly handle these behaviors. In addition, the salary regime for cadres and civil servants is still low compared to the general income level of society, while the amount of work to be handled and resolved at all levels, sectors and localities is increasing, the responsibilities are increasingly high, leading to many cadres and civil servants quitting their jobs; a number of cadres and civil servants work half-heartedly with the idea of "commensurate with salary" or use and take advantage of working time during office hours to do personal work, earn extra income to reduce the economic burden on the family. In addition, the heads of some Party committees, authorities, agencies and units are sometimes and in some places not determined, resolute, not closely following and focusing properly; Lack of effective methods and measures for direction, management and organization of implementation; not fully demonstrating the role and responsibility in leading and directing the implementation of tasks, especially difficult tasks, with obstacles requiring high determination; not regularly monitoring, urging and inspecting the implementation of work by cadres and civil servants. A number of cadres and party members are not truly exemplary, have not raised the sense of responsibility for work; have inadequate awareness of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws; have shown signs of degradation in political ideology, ethics and lifestyle; are afraid of responsibility; lack courage, are tempted, fall into individualism and material interests. The work of commenting, evaluating and classifying cadres and party members is sometimes and in some places not carried out seriously, still respectful, afraid of collision, and not true to the substance. The capacity and qualifications of some cadres, party members, civil servants and public employees do not meet the requirements of their positions and jobs, and lack skills... leading to fear of difficult tasks, avoidance, shirking, fear of mistakes and fear of responsibility.
Seriously rectify
In order to rectify and overcome the situation of avoiding, pushing, working half-heartedly, and being afraid of responsibility by a number of cadres and civil servants, especially leaders and managers, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee requires each agency, unit, and locality in the province to review the overall functions, tasks, and organizational structure of their agency, unit, and locality according to the principle of "one task, one job assigned to one unit, one individual to preside over, avoiding overlapping, duplication, or omission of tasks, in accordance with reality and current regulations". Continue to review, supplement, and perfect working regulations and rules to ensure publicity, transparency, science, consistency, and compliance with the Party's organizational principles and the State's laws; clearly identify and define responsibilities and powers between the collective and individuals, especially the head and those performing management and operation work. Regularly monitor, urge and inspect the implementation of public duties for agencies, units and localities in the province, especially the responsibility of the head. Strengthen inspection and supervision of the implementation of working regulations, internal rules and regulations of agencies and units; inspect public service activities, working style and manners... to promptly detect and correct organizations and individuals who show signs of avoidance, shirking, working half-heartedly, afraid of responsibility and not daring to do. Focus on implementing solutions to overcome the shortage of good leaders, managers, administrators who dare to think, dare to do, dare to innovate, dare to take responsibility, specialized researchers in a number of fields, cadres capable of working in an international environment...; build a cadre with sufficient qualities, capacity, prestige, equal to the task. Resolutely and promptly replace and transfer cadres, civil servants and leading officials, especially leaders who do not meet the requirements of their tasks, have weak capacity, have not strictly followed the direction and management of superiors, violate discipline and responsibility for handling work or allow localities and units to develop in a way that is not commensurate with the potential, position and investment of the province, lack internal solidarity, low trust, peace is precious, have negative public opinions and petitions, do not wait until the end of the term, the end of the appointment period, or the retirement age. Strictly implement the work of taking votes of confidence for cadres and Regulation No. 41-QD/TW, dated November 3, 2021 of the Politburo on dismissal and resignation of cadres, especially in cases where cadres have reduced prestige, are no longer motivated to work, and have weak capacity.
We believe that with the solutions proposed by the Binh Thuan Provincial Party Committee, we will overcome the "disease" of avoiding, pushing, working half-heartedly, and being afraid of responsibility, thereby removing the "bottleneck" from the human factor so that our province can develop quickly and sustainably.
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